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Topic: DSL is back to it's default install after boot, All settings etc are lost after reboot..

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icepick

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Posted: June 22 2007,14:31

Hi all,

I am running DSL from a 1gb compact flash card. I managed to get it working without a problem, and I use loadlin to start DSL. However.. every time I start DSL it's like a brand new installation.. are the settings I did in the previous session (bookmarkt, X server setup etc) are all gone. Somehow it seems like DSL is running from RAM instead of from my compact flash card. How to fix this?
I removed the 'TORAM' from my options.txt and made root=/dev/hda1 instead of root=/dev/ramdisk. Any idea's what I am doing wrong?

roberts

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Posted: June 22 2007,14:33

Read the Getting Started with DSL document that first appears on boot.

icepick

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Posted: June 22 2007,14:50

Quote (roberts @ June 22 2007,10:33)

Read the Getting Started with DSL document that first appears on boot.

Well, according to the wiki I should create a persistent home directory using these steps;

mount /mnt/hda5
mkdir -p /mnt/hda5/home
cp -a /home/dsl /mnt/hda5/home

However.. if I try step one it says ' can't find /mnt/hda5 in /etc/fstab'.. so that doesnt help me much..

lucky13

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Posted: June 22 2007,15:16

You need to use a valid partition on and for your device. The wiki's mention of /mnt/hda5 would apply to a standard hard drive, not to a flash card which is going to be /mnt/sdXY where X is a-z according to assignment via hotplug and Y according to the number of partitions on the device. Are you running DSL solely off flash? Then you need an extra partition on it. Do you have a Linux partition on /dev/hda (your hard drive) which to mount and use for DSL? If not, that's the problem.

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